Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945